Mixed-media water colours

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Exploring the visible

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The Artist 2017 Open Competition

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Slow down

Haste is the artist’s worst enemy says Adebanji Alade. This month he advises you to take your time – it will help you to produce better paintings

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Celebrating the rose

Colourist Peter Graham describes how he uses roses to create atmosphere in his light-filled still-life oil paintings

A touch of body colour

Judi Whitton explains how to introduce opaque media to your watercolours to ‘produce timeless, subtle and harmonious’ paintings

Alla-prima oils

Haidee-Jo Summers says the alla-prima approach is a great way to freshen-up your oil paintings. Here she suggests you put yourself to the test by limiting the number of brushstrokes you use

Beach views

Mike Barr reveals the secrets to successful beachscapes, with tips on colours, composition and perspective

The city in perspective

Robert Dutton continues his series with advice on how to use the rules of one-, two- and three-point perspective with exciting viewpoints to create dynamic cityscapes

Smooth, strong colour

‘Firm, velvety-smooth, intensely coloured and reliably lightfast’ is how Susie Hodge describes Derwent’s new Procolour pencils

Mess versus finesse

In the last of his six-part series Paul Talbot-Greaves urges you to loosen up and allow yourself to start with mess – it really will end in success!

Still life with violin

Adele Wagstaff says that musical instruments make a beautiful subject, and demonstrates a still life of her violin

Jackson’s linen boards

Max Hale loves painting on Jackson’s ‘clever’ linen boards. They’re available in a wide range of textures and weights that should meet every artist’s needs

How to paint edges

Michael Jules Lang explains, with examples, how to create a variety of edges, and why this will help you to achieve subtle, more sophisticated paintings

THE A-Z OF COLOUR

Some colours should be used with caution, advises Julie Collins, so much so that if mix your own you’ll obtain a better result

Sketching on the move

Seasoned traveller and plein-air sketcher Barry Herniman reveals what he packs in his lightweight sketching kit – the one he takes on his walking holidays. Our Art Courses & Holidays supplement, supplied free with this issue, has more ideas to inspire you!

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